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System Properties Comparison Firebird vs. GBase vs. Memcached vs. OpenEdge vs. Trafodion

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NameFirebird  Xexclude from comparisonGBase  Xexclude from comparisonMemcached  Xexclude from comparisonOpenEdge  Xexclude from comparisonTrafodion  Xexclude from comparison
Apache Trafodion has been retired in 2021. Therefore it is excluded from the DB-Engines Ranking.
DescriptionFirebird is an open source RDBMS forked from Borland's InterBaseWidely used RDBMS in China, including analytical, transactional, distributed transactional, and cloud-native data warehousing.In-memory key-value store, originally intended for cachingApplication development environment with integrated database management systemTransactional SQL-on-Hadoop DBMS
Primary database modelRelational DBMSRelational DBMSKey-value storeRelational DBMSRelational DBMS
DB-Engines Ranking infomeasures the popularity of database management systemsranking trend
Trend Chart
Score20.50
Rank#30  Overall
#18  Relational DBMS
Score1.05
Rank#186  Overall
#86  Relational DBMS
Score18.08
Rank#32  Overall
#4  Key-value stores
Score3.45
Rank#85  Overall
#46  Relational DBMS
Websitewww.firebirdsql.orgwww.gbase.cnwww.memcached.orgwww.progress.com/­openedgetrafodion.apache.org
Technical documentationwww.firebirdsql.org/­en/­reference-manualsgithub.com/­memcached/­memcached/­wikidocumentation.progress.com/­output/­ua/­OpenEdge_latesttrafodion.apache.org/­documentation.html
DeveloperFirebird FoundationGeneral Data Technology Co., Ltd.Danga Interactive infooriginally developed by Brad Fitzpatrick for LiveJournalProgress Software CorporationApache Software Foundation, originally developed by HP
Initial release2000 infoAs fork of Borland's InterBase2004200319842014
Current release5.0.0, January 2024GBase 8a, GBase 8s, GBase 8c1.6.27, May 2024OpenEdge 12.2, March 20202.3.0, February 2019
License infoCommercial or Open SourceOpen Source infoInitial Developer's Public LicensecommercialOpen Source infoBSD licensecommercialOpen Source infoApache 2.0
Cloud-based only infoOnly available as a cloud servicenonononono
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Implementation languageC and C++C, Java, PythonCC++, Java
Server operating systemsAIX
FreeBSD
HP-UX
Linux
OS X
server-less infoFirebird Embedded Server
Solaris
Unix
Windows
LinuxFreeBSD
Linux
OS X
Unix
Windows
AIX
HP-UX
Linux
Solaris
Windows
Linux
Data schemeyesyesschema-freeyesyes
Typing infopredefined data types such as float or dateyesyesnoyesyes
XML support infoSome form of processing data in XML format, e.g. support for XML data structures, and/or support for XPath, XQuery or XSLT.yesyesno
Secondary indexesyesyesnoyesyes
SQL infoSupport of SQLyesStandard with numerous extensionsnoyes infoclose to SQL 92yes
APIs and other access methodsADO.NET
C/C++ API
JDBC infoJaybird
ODBC
OLE DB
ADO.NET
C API
JDBC
ODBC
Proprietary protocolJDBC
ODBC
ADO.NET
JDBC
ODBC
Supported programming languagesC
C#
C++
Delphi
Java
JavaScript infoNode.js
Lua
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
C#.Net
C
C++
ColdFusion
Erlang
Java
Lisp
Lua
OCaml
Perl
PHP
Python
Ruby
Progress proprietary ABL (Advanced Business Language)All languages supporting JDBC/ODBC/ADO.Net
Server-side scripts infoStored proceduresPSQLuser defined functionsnoyesJava Stored Procedures
Triggersyesyesnoyesno
Partitioning methods infoMethods for storing different data on different nodesnonehorizontal partitioning (by range, list and hash) and vertical partitioningnonehorizontal partitioning infosince Version 11.4Sharding
Replication methods infoMethods for redundantly storing data on multiple nodesSource-replica replicationyesnone infoRepcached, a Memcached patch, provides this functionallitySource-replica replicationyes, via HBase
MapReduce infoOffers an API for user-defined Map/Reduce methodsnononoyes infovia user defined functions and HBase
Consistency concepts infoMethods to ensure consistency in a distributed systemImmediate ConsistencyImmediate ConsistencyImmediate Consistency
Foreign keys infoReferential integrityyesyesnoyesyes
Transaction concepts infoSupport to ensure data integrity after non-atomic manipulations of dataACIDACIDnoACIDACID
Concurrency infoSupport for concurrent manipulation of datayes infoFeatures a multi-generational MVCC architecture, readers do not block writersyesyesyesyes
Durability infoSupport for making data persistentyesyesnoyesyes
In-memory capabilities infoIs there an option to define some or all structures to be held in-memory only.nono
User concepts infoAccess controlUsers with fine-grained authorization conceptyesyes infousing SASL (Simple Authentication and Security Layer) protocolUsers and groupsfine grained access rights according to SQL-standard

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